Archives for October 2006

I came across the site ACLU Exposed, who reprinted a good chunk of an article by Jennifer LeClaire "ACLU Battles Child Online Protection Act in Federal Court" but place this under their addition title of "ACLU In Favor Of On-line Porn - Specifically Child Porn". In case you were not previously aware what the ACLU was about, the site helpfully tells us "the agenda of the ACLU … [Read more...]

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a report on intellectual property in a digital age, which calls for a better balance between the rights of IP holders and consumers, by placing knowledge as a public resource first and a private asset second. In particular the report calls for: an amendment to UK law to include a right to copy; for anti circumvention … [Read more...]

The eight year battle over the constitutionality of the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA) began again this week as the US Government went to Court seeking to overturn a ruling, upheld by the Supreme Court, that the Act may be unconstitutional because the US Government had failed to prove that there were not less restrictive means of protecting children from obscenity … [Read more...]

A nice new photo sharing site has appeared offering unlimited photo uploads , 10 at a time (no photo bigger than 5mb). Thumbq is very handy if you want to display you photos on other sites. It generate different size thumbnails and displays the linking code for each of them, which means all you need to do is add the code onto the page you want it to display on and the thumbnail … [Read more...]

Six Apart have launched their new blogging platform Vox, which is aimed very much at the Myspace /Bebo audience. I have created a page which I will play around with over the next week to see what is what, although I don't see myself using the site long-term (although the option to make individual posts private/or just viewable to select friends is a nice function). … [Read more...]